“Furthermore, Northam’s 1.4 million votes is short of Trump’s 1.8 million votes. That is HARDLY a referendum.”
I didn’t look into the numbers, but a map I saw on the Times’ election website seemed to indicate lighter turnout in the eastern part of VA ... it almost seemed as if Dems had typical turnout for a Gov. election, Repubs were down. I wouldn’t bet my life on that analysis, but it certainly seemed that way.
If true, they had better get rid of Karl Rove and his idiotic methodology that loses elections. Seriously, the man had only one big win (2004) ... he almost lost 2000 to a moron and he’s been a total disaster since 2004. If they would have opened up to Trump, I could promise you that last night wouldn’t have been a shellacking.
Sorry ... western part of VA ... not eastern :-)!